OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

[Lisa Kachold]

"But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their
suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part
of the process."  -Eric S. Raymond, OSDL co-founder and president
emeritus

Of course, Raymond was discussing Open Source Licensing Initiatives,
not Linus' chair.

The whole cubicle smelled like a well washed Finnish child, cleverly
disguised as a responsible adult, playing in FOSS heaven, which was
OSDL in the early 2000's.

Actually, Torvalds' worked from home as a fellow for the Open Source
Development Lab, then a corporate-funded consortium created to foster
improvements to Linux.  Linus rarely worked from his cubicle, his
brand new desk and chair smelled of fine modern fiber weave....

Linus sightings are common in Oregon.  When I attended LinuxCon 2009,
he still smelled like childish enthusiasm, health and FOSS heaven.

On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> you smelled his chair?
>>
>>  were all wondering: what did it smell like?
>
>
>   penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw.  -jmz
>
>>
>>  -jmz
>>
>>>
>>> interesting :-P
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a
>>>> contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon:
>>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2
>>>>
>>>> That's me in the front row:
>>>>  http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/
>>>>
>>>> There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:
>>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Will_The_Fake_Linus_Torvalds_Please_Stand_Up_VIDEO
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>   I saw this on slashdot I think.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Long Live Linus.
>>>>>
>>>>>   -jmz
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 :
>>>>>>> [quote:]
>>>>>>> <blockquote>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Glyn Moody writes"Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19 years
>>>>>>> ago,
>>>>>>> on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the holidays,
>>>>>>> Linus
>>>>>>> rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his
>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>> PC: a
>>>>>>> DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte
>>>>>>> hard
>>>>>>> disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the
>>>>>>> fastest
>>>>>>> supercomputers, and is starting to find its way into more and
>>>>>>> more smartphones — not to mention everything in between. What would
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> world look like had he spent his money on something else?"
>>>>>>> </blockquote>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
>>>>>>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus -- (which is
>>>>>> pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the /.
>>>>>> article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago" link).
>>>>>>       I just read that longer item
>>>>>> (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
>>>>>>  Pretty interesting.
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>> Glendale  AZ
>>>>>> schwartz at acm.org
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